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Supply Chain Disruption and Agent-Based Modeling : A Literature Review and Model

September 25, 2025
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas, Jennifer Helgeson, Ireland Crowther
This report provides a literature review of supply chain disruption and agent-based models. It also develops an agent-based model to examine emergent phenomena in supply chain disruption. This model will eventually be used to 1) examine how supply chain

Analyzing Collusion Threats in the Semiconductor Supply Chain

June 30, 2025
Author(s)
Sanjay Rekhi, Kostas Amberiadis, Abir Ahsan Akib, Ankur Srivastava
In this work, we propose a comprehensive framework to analyze threats related to semiconductor supply chain. The framework introduces a metric which quantifies the severity of different threats subjected to a collusion of adversaries from different stages

SysML Extension for Logistics Modeling and Analysis (SysLMA)

April 23, 2025
Author(s)
Raphael Barbau, Conrad Bock
Many engineers use analysis tools to predict behavior or find optimal values for properties of systems built to proposed designs, informing system design work by identifying cases where a design will perform incorrectly or in suboptimal ways. Design and

The U.S. Plastics Recycling Economy: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas, Joshua D. Kneifel, David Butry
This report builds upon NIST AMS 100-48 (Thomas 2022), which examined the economics of increased circularity in the economy, focusing on the processes, forces, and decision making that result in an unsustainable economy. This report further discusses the

Life-Cycle Analysis Datasets for Regionalized Plastic Pathways

February 1, 2024
Author(s)
Taemin Kim, Pahola Benavides, Joshua Kneifel, Kate Beers, Zifeng Lu, Troy Hawkins
The carbon intensity (CI) of producing five different resins – polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polypropylene (PP), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) – in four different international regions –

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2023

November 2, 2023
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S. industry compares to other countries, (2) the trends in the domestic industry, and (3) the

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

August 21, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Vijay Srinivasan, Simon P. Frechette
ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

July 14, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease

Formalizing and Reasoning about Supply Chain Contracts between Agents

January 8, 2023
Author(s)
Dylan Flynn, Chasity Nadeau, Jeannine Shantz, Marcello Balduccini, Tran Son, Edward Griffor
Inspired by the recent problems in supply chains, we propose an approach to declarative modeling of contracts between agents that will eventually support reasoning about resilience of and about ways to improve supply chains. Specifically, we present a high

Supply Chain Assurance: Validating the Integrity of Computing Devices

December 9, 2022
Author(s)
Nakia R. Grayson, Murugiah Souppaya, Andrew Regenscheid, Tim Polk, Christopher Brown, Karen Scarfone, Chelsea Deane
Product integrity and the ability to distinguish trustworthy products is a critical foundation of C-SCRM. Authoritative information regarding the provenance and integrity of components provides a strong basis for trust in a computing device whether it is a

Measuring downstream supply chain losses due to power disturbances

September 16, 2022
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas, Juan Fung
Power outages in the U.S. affect many firms' economic activity and are likely to result in downstream supply chain disruptions. This paper examines the impact of power disturbances in the supply chain for four industries: manufacturing, durable goods

Enabling Traceability in Agri-Food Supply Chains Using an Ontological Approach

March 25, 2022
Author(s)
Farhad Ameri, Evan K. Wallace, Reid Yoder, Frank H. Riddick
Traceability of food products to their sources is critical for quick responses to food emergencies. US law now requires stakeholders in the agri-food supply chain to support traceability by tracking food materials they acquire and sell. However, having the

Models for an Ultraviolet-C Research and Development Consortium

March 25, 2022
Author(s)
Dianne L. Poster, C Cameron Miller, Yaw S. Obeng, John J. Kasianowicz, Michael T. Postek, Norman Horn, Troy Cowan, Richard Martinello
The development of an international, precompetitive, collaborative, ultraviolet (UV) research consortium is discussed as an opportunity to lay the groundwork for a new UV commercial industry and the supply chain to support this industry. History has

Advances in Production Management Systems: Issues, Trends, and Vision Towards 2030

August 13, 2021
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, David Romero, Gregor V. Cieminski, Paolo Gaiardelli, Ilkyeong Moon, Giuditta Pezzotta, Stefan Wiesner, Marco Macchi, Jannicke B. Hauge, Irene Roda, Daryl Powell, Torbj?rn Netland, Nick Szirbik, Christoph Roser, Erlend Alfnes, Martin Rudberg
Since its inception in 1978, the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) has played an active role in the conception, development, and application of innovative strategies, frameworks, architectures, processes, methods

Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Observations from Industry

February 11, 2021
Author(s)
Jon M. Boyens, Celia Paulsen, Nadya Bartol, Kris Winkler, James Gimbi
In today's highly connected, inter-dependent world, all organizations rely on others for critical products and services. However, the reality of globalization, while providing many benefits, has resulted in a world where organizations no longer fully

Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: A Supplement to NIST Special Publication 800-171

February 9, 2021
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Pillitteri, Gary Guissanie, Ryan Wagner, Richard Graubart, Deborah Bodeau
The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and can directly impact the ability of the Federal Government to successfully conduct its essential

Towards a Reference Ontology for Supply Chain Management

February 9, 2021
Author(s)
Evan K. Wallace
This paper summarizes the results from recent activities of the IOF Supply Chain Working Group (SC WG). The objectives of the IOF SC WG are to identify requirements, notions and terms from the supply chain domain, develop a domain-specific reference
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